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draculaura - caroline (ghost possessing a human)
catty noir - carmilla (vampire)
claude howell - vince (ghost)
frankie - danny (scarecrow)
danny is the only one im eh on but i think ill ultimately go with frankie bc of their jaw and prosthetic leg…
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went driving practice. someone was on my ass amd i cried about it. went to a guitar shop but it was closed. went to walmart and bought the last catty noir there.
yayyyyy catty noir
#sorry i dont care for her character or clothing tho i think she is gorgeous and this is who i want for my carmilla doll mh au base#but shes so gorgeoussssss
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It frightens and discourages me how pervasive "tribal" stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.
It's all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you're likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can't recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.
You can't escape it in modern cinema, either. You'll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don't know how to use their resources "properly." You'll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.
And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the "bloodthirsty natives" are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.
It doesn't matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn't matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn't make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same "savage" umbrella. They're different. They're strange. They're scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.
Modern writers, directors, and developers don't even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as "obstacles" for non-native protagonists to overcome. "It's not racist," they say, "because these people aren't really people, you see." And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you're accused of being the real racist: "These aren't humans! They're monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?"
No, they're not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?
This is how deep colonialism runs.
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i could theoretically get my nan to drop me off
#i get like 800 before taxes on my current salary#so roughly 600 dollars every two weeks#compared to 1600 !!!!!!! every two weeks idk id its a weekly or biweekly pay but still thats like double my paycheck#and also before tqx but thats still gonna be over 1k at least jesus christttttttt
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twenty minutes away a town is offering a full time library position . its 20.50 dollars an hour and im only being paid 13.50 an hour rn . god i wanna apply so so bad
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there are so many books in this beautiful world. many of them bad
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this is actually very annoying um . anyway also im too early so i cant even clock in yet HELLO STEVE IGNORED ME ????? rude i said hello and everything ok guess ill just clock in early whatever
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oh god i got to work and i dont have my glasses i wont be able to read anythinggggg i actually do need them um wonder if i should text my brother to get them for me or not
#also he dropped me off early#oh wait my desk is a mess and hes gonna shit on me for that guess im going blind today then eughhhhhh
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FUCK HE WANTS ME TO WORK
#its 2pm to 8pm which isnt horrible and technically i can still go back to bed :(#my paycheck better be soooo fucking good man
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texted my manager to ask if i had to come in today and hopefully he says no but im going back go bed
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really dont wanna go to work tomorrow. like i dont even have a schedule or nothing until june 2nd so can i just not show up
#its so annoying cause i have to ask every day when i should come in and my manager wasnt even there yesterday#like this is not something i should be deciding i am just a simple worker
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ok had a shower and my phone is almost dead so im going to put it upstairs and try to sit downstairs and write or maybe just sit here and stare at the wall idk something will happen
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the worst part of the job is that theres Expectations for me. i cannot simply show up and do bare minimum and fuck off these people expect me to care and try and help people. i dont !!!!! fuck you guys !!!! i wanna get a paycheck and leave !!!!!!!!!!!
#like being team leader would be nice since i get paid more but i dont want to close the store. or know where every little rhing is. i dont#care that much !!!!!!#but at the same time on my current salary i only make like 30k a year before taxes#well i googled and its like roughly 40k which is not that much better but its still more money i dont know#ill give it a few months and then ill probably leave before i advance cause i dont careeeeeee
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fuck this stupid gay life i havent been able to do anything all day except for listen to music and even then i havent been having a great time. vaguely thinking about priscilla . wanted to write stuff for caroline today but i think my dreams for that are over 💔
#i dont wanna burn myself out but also im not doing anything else which is annoying#i wanna quit my job and rot in my room for months but apparently im an adult now and arent allowed to do that
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